Lis Howell reflects on gender balance at the recent Public Service Broadcasting Forum
With the collapse of both the British National Party and George Galloway's left-wing Respect movement at recent elections, east London has been looking forward to a break from radical politics. A threatened march by Islamophobic hooligans has shattered the calm.
“… there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families” This was Margaret Thatcher talking to Women’s Own magazine in October 1987.
The Oryol Region in central Russia has been fairly successful in dealing with its drug problems, but the approaches need coordinating, says Elena Godlevskaya, and not everyone has an interest in improving the situation
In preparation for the upcoming 2010 Commonwealth Games, Delhi is bursting with expensive construction and renovation projects. But these measures will do little to alleviate the living conditions in its slums, says Michael Arthur
Migration is an unstoppable fact of life in the 21st century and should be based on a sound understanding of migrants’ motivations and real life experiences.
Organized human trafficking gangs are expected to establish themselves in London to make the most of the opportunity of the 2012 Olympics. Authorities need to work with grassroots organisations in order to make sure that top-down interventions do not harm the very people they aim to protect
Maybe Kanishk Tharoor is just missing London, but he has gone soft for a commercial version of God Save the Queen. Gareth Young reported on the real choice:
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After a successful conference, we summarise contributions to the Public Service Broadcasting Forum so far.
Investigative journalism is no longer just the domain of the traditional media.
Newspaper sales are declining drastically and so (inevitably) are the staff. The Mirror group have recently announced one
Throwing money at a problem doesn’t always solve it. Allocations for drug control have been increased on Sakhalin, but the addiction statistics remain uncomfortably high. Sometimes ordinary people could do more to help, says Kseniya Semyonova
